Events Calendar
Panel Discussion: "Implications of Immigration for South Bend"
March 26, 2008 ( 07:00PM - 08:30PM )
This panel discussion, which is free and open to the public, will feature local religious, legal and educational leaders, as well as health care service providers. The event is sponsored by the Department of Economics and Policy Studies, the Department of Economics and Econometrics, and the Poverty Studies interdisciplinary minor, in conjunction with last year's Notre Dame Forum on immigration. Panelists will include the Rev. Chris Cox, C.S.C., associate pastor of St. Adalbert Parish; Leonora Battani, manager of Memorial Hospital's Hispanic Initiative; Lee A. O'Connor, directing attorney of the Immigrants' Rights Center at Indiana Legal Services and vice chair of the Indiana chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association; Bill Barna, bilingual education coordinator for the South Bend Community School Corp.; and Jamie Grebowski, a senior economics major at Notre Dame. This event follows "Immigration: A Notre Dame Forum," which was held in October 2007. The previous event featured U.S. Sen. Melaquiades Rafael "Mel" Martinez, R-Fla.; Cardinal Roger Mahoney of Los Angeles; Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona; and Mayor Louis J. Barletta of Hazleton, Pa.